79% of UK social enterprises have said a grant would most help their business now - compared to just 7% who said a mix of grant and loan money. More on the Social Enterprise UK research revealed this week: pioneerspost.com/news-views/202… #SocEnt #covid19

Top 100 social enterprises in UK revealed: NatWest SE100 2020 ift.tt/2Lv7V6s

A privilege to have chaired the judging panel for the NatWest #SE100 Awards - many congratulations to all the winners announced today by Pioneers Post

Cant believe we are in the final 10 Its given us such a boost Whooooo!

'One thing I was never concerned about was the resolve of our people to do the best thing for those they support. I couldn't ask for a better team', says P3 CEO @marksimms3 Read why he is crowned 2020's NatWest Business #SE100 Leadership Champion: bit.ly/3gpprHP

We're delighted to have won the @NatwestBusiness #SE100 award for Impact Management! Check out Tom's video below.

.GLL is the UK’s largest #socent leisure provider. Read why it won 2020's NatWest Business #SE100 Storyteller Award for its successful marketing campaign maximising on the ethical purchasing habits of Millennials: bit.ly/2TYMuQc – plus a personal msg from their team:

NEW: This month's Impact Finance Bulletin is out now. Featuring @theGIIN @Loreal Venturesome BBRC One Young World Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) Novastar Ventures Esmée Fairbairn Triodos Bank UK (inactive) Northstar Ventures Nexus for Development & more: pioneerspost.com/news-views/202…

A social enterprise magazine? Pioneers Post sets the agenda for the new wave of social entrepreneurs, responsible business leaders and impact investors. 📢 So, how have they adapted to #AChangingWorld🌍? Find out in this thread⬇️

Co-operative ownership cut as a family firm buys 80%. I’m not sure what to make of Divine Chocolate’s new ownership structure: a vital bailout during tough times, less power for farmers..? Does it matter? Story by my Pioneers Post colleague Tim West here pioneerspost.com/news-views/202…

Wonderful to catch up with our talented bunch of DICE Young Storymakers today for reflections on year one of the programme - dialling in from Jakarta, Rio, Karachi and more... @SocEntGlobal British Council Creative Economy Dimpho Lekgeu Imani Dlamini Astari Sarosa Yael Berman Maria Eduarda Lannes Pedro Lira

These young journalists might just change the media! Through Pioneers Post and @SocEntGlobal we’ve supported them to learn about solutions journalism, #socent, creative enterprise - and to develop their storytelling skills. And they’ve created some brilliant features for us.

Great work by our creative Pioneers Post team with this important feature about how one of the UK's most iconic social businesses is pivoting out of the pandemic.

This is a great opportunity for social enterprises working in access to employment and supporting those most distant from the labour market. We'll be sharing more information on this next week so keep a look out on our socials!

1. Right about now the 20,000th Community Interest Company is registering. An astonishing number really. It's great. CICs are diverse, they keep on coming and they're everywhere. We've seen practically zero scandals / big failures. This also strengthens the 100k #socent estimate.

Excited to be launching a new podcast series today with Pioneers Post & Association of Camerados -'The Feeling's Mutual'. 1st in the series with the brilliant Bob Thust Maff Potts Carly Attridge Ruth Jackson chatting all things mutual aid - pioneerspost.com/podcasts/20200…

I have heard the phrase ‘low-skill and low pay jobs’ challenged 3 times this week and about time. These jobs (carers, nurses, factory workers, train drivers etc) are, in fact, skilled and specialist. And they are poorly paid because they are undervalued. Time to change

A £1bn patient loan fund, managed by socially motivated investors with deep connections to place, would be transformative, ‘cost’ less than 1% of what government already grants to the social sector, and return many multiples of benefit to the taxpayer Department for Culture, Media and Sport HM Treasury 4/4

- biz seeking to win govt work *must* set out how they will deliver social value - depts will use social value model to assess and score suppliers - new measures come into effect Jan 2021 - all major procurements will explicitly evaluate social value rather than just consider

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